How Can Schools Improve Teacher Evaluations? A Discussion

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Renee Pryor has taken the dread out of teacher evaluations in her Tenn. district. In this video, originally streamed on Facebook Live, she sits down with Elizabeth Rich, Education Week Commentary editor. (March 30, 2017)

The 2018 Election Is All About Education - Part 1: Teacher Candidates

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Educational issues play a pivotal part in this year’s midterm elections, including teachers running for office, school funding, and school safety.

Sandy Hook Parents Work to Prevent Another School Shooting

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Five years ago, 20 first-graders and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Some of the grieving parents say the massacre was preventable and they’re working to head-off other shootings. (December 13, 2017)

Leaders To Learn From: Richard A. Carranza

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San Francisco Unified Superintendent Richard A. Carranza is charting multiple pathways for English-language learners to become bilingual, biliterate high school graduates. (February 23, 2015)

Slideshow: An All-Girls School in Dallas

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Nancy Bernardino, the principal of Solar Preparatory School for Girls, discusses her school's focus on preparing girls for careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.

Meeting the Needs of English-Language Learners – 2016 Leader to Learn From

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Seventy years before becoming superintendent in California’s Anaheim Union High School District, Michael Matsuda’s mother, Ruth Ikeda, was a 14-year-old freshman at Anaheim High who was forced to live in internment camps. (February 24, 2016)

New Orleans Schools 10 Years After Katrina

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When Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans 10 years ago, it upended the city's troubled school system and prompted a controversial state-led experiment in public education. Correspondent John Tulenko looks into the whole story. (April 26, 2016)

Superintendent Knocks Down Barriers to Learning for Poor Students

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In South Carolina’s Greenville County Schools, Superintendent W. Burke Royster draws on multiple partners to help keep students engaged in school and on track to graduate. (February 22, 2017)

Preparing All Students for College - Meet a 2017 Leader to Learn From

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As chief program officer for Texas' IDEA Public Schools, Dolores Gonzalez designed an academic program to put the charter network's 30,000 students-many of them English-language learners-on a firm path to college.

‘I Feel For Them’ - Columbine Survivor Helps Survivors of Parkland Shooting

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Heather Martin survived the massacre at Columbine High School 20 years ago by hiding with dozens of others. Now, she helps victims of other mass shootings, including students from Parkland. (February 13, 2019)

You Come Out Because You Can’t Not: A Gay Teacher's Perspective

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High school writing teacher Patty Smith discusses the importance of building an LGBT-inclusive school community. Smith’s desire to create a safe space for all students was the result of her personal decision to come out. (February 16, 2016)